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 57 STAr.] 78TH CONG., 1B T SESS.-CH. 228-JULY 12, 1943 OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION Salaries and expenses: For all necessary expenses of the Office of War Information, including the employment of a Director and Asso- ciate Director at not exceeding $12,000 and $10,000 per annum, respectively; not to exceed $75,000 for the temporary employment in the United States of persons by contract or otherwise without regard to the civil service and classification laws; employment of aliens; employment of persons outside the continental limits of the United States without regard to the provisions of law applicable to the employment and compensation of officers and employees of the United States; travel expenses (not to exceed $400,000 for travel within the continental limits of the United States), including such expenses outside the continental limits of the United States without regard to the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and the Subsistence Expense Act and section 901 of the Act of June 29, 1936 (49 Stat. 2015); expenses of transporting employees and their effects from their homes to their places of employment in a foreign country and return to the United States; purchase of radio time and purchase or rental of facilities for radio transmission; purchase, rental, con- struction, improvement, maintenance, and operation of facilities for radio transmission, including real property, outside the continental limits of the United States, without regard to the provisions of sec- tion 355, Revised Statutes (40 U. S. C . 255) and other provisions of law affecting the purchase or rental of land and the construction of buildings thereon; advertising in foreign newspapers without regard to section 3828, Revised -Statutes (44 U. S. C . 324); printing and binding (not to exceed $1,400,000, for such expenses within the continental limits of the United States) including printing and binding outside the continental limits of the United States without regard to section 11 of the Act of March 1, 1919 (44 U. S. C . 111); purchase or rental and operation of photographic, reproduction, print- ing, duplicating, communication, and other machines, equipment, and devices; payment to employees with official headquarters outside the continental limits of the United States, in accordance with the Stand- ardized Regulations prescribed by the President on December 30, 1942, of living and quarters allowances; exchange of funds without regard to section 3651, Revised Statutes; purchase of twenty-four motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for use outside the con- tinental limits of the United States, may be acquired without regard to statutory limitations as to price and authority to purchase; acquisi- tion, production, and free distribution of publications, phonograph records, radio transcriptions, motion-picture films, photographs and pictures, educational materials, and such other items as the Director may deem necessary to carry out the program of the Office of War Information, and sale or rental of such items by contract or otherwise to firms or individuals for use outside the continental limits of the United States; such gratuitous expenses of travel and subsistence as the Director deems advisable in the fields of education, travel, radio, press, and cinema; not to exceed $175,000 for entertainment of offi- cials of other countries; payment of the United States share of the expenses of the maintenance 2 in cooperation with any other of the United Nations, of an organization designed to receive and dissemi- nate information relative to the prosecution of the war; $33,222,504: Provided, That, exclusive of amounts for unvouchered funds and the continency fund, not more than $24,000,000 (including ling and quarters allowances) shall be allocated to the Overseas eratio a nh and not more than $2,750,000 shall be allocated to th eic Operations Branch for the following functions only: Office of the tP, p. 613. Director and Asso- eiate Director. Temporary employ- ment. Travel expenhe. 44 Stat. 688. 6U.S.C.i81; 8upp. II, 823. 46U. C.. 1241. Printing and bind- Pllt, p. .614. 40 stat. 1270 Allowanoes outside U. 8. Exchange of funds. 31 U. .C..i 854 Travel and subsist- ence. Cooperation with any other of the Unit- ed Nations Aloaton of funds 531

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